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Congratulations, TV lovers. You've survived the least wonderful time of the year. In December, Hollywood takes the equivalent of a long holiday, packing the schedule with reruns and holiday specials you've seen 80 times. Well, never fear. January is almost here. Over the next few months, some of television's best shows return, and networks will try to atone for their canceled flops with new, sparkling offerings that just might become must-see viewing. Here, in chronological order, is a guide to the most promising shows: "Downton Abbey": A beloved member of the family is dying — the Earl of Grantham's dog. Don't worry. It's not all tea and...

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Congratulations, TV lovers. You've survived the least wonderful time of the year. In December, Hollywood takes the equivalent of a long holiday, packing the schedule with reruns and holiday specials you've seen 80 times.
Well, never fear. January is...

With all respect to Stefon, the gushy club-hopping, seen-it-all, lives-in-a-trash-can-near-Radio-Shack correspondent that Bill Hader played on "Saturday Night Live," the Bill Hader story has everything: A childhood in Oklahoma, a job in a...

Few longtime observers consider 2013-14 a vintage year for Broadway. So weak was the overall slate that most of the new offerings were outsold by longer-lived shows from previous seasons.
When it came to serious new musicals with original scores, the...

Imagine if you crossed “Romeo and Juliet” with “Bonnie and Clyde” in a French cartoon starring a penniless bear and a precocious mouse. No, that’s not a kids’ fever dream—that’s an elevator-pitch summary of “Ernest and Celestine,” a refreshingly...

A different play will close out Profiles Theatre’s 2013-14 season rather than the previously announced “Hunter Gatherers” by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb, a representative for the company said on Wednesday. “Hunter Gatherers” has been postponed until further...

The Frank Loesser Musical about the Man Who Rises from Window Washer to Chairman of the Board has Direction by Rob Lindley, Music Direction by Kory Danielson, Choreography by Brenda Didier and the “Voice of the Book” is Chicago’s own Bill Kurtis.
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Darrell W. Cox, the star of many a show these last two decades at the venerable Profiles Theatre, is the kind of Chicago actor who likes to take a deep dive into a character. Very deep. Cox has a talent for intensity and meticulous preparation that...

Whenever I find myself in a bleak mood, a quick glance at the Ron Swanson Pyramid of Greatness usually does the trick. A near-perfect melding of minds between the "Parks and Recreation" writing staff and actor Nick Offerman, this visual guide on...

"Parks and Recreation" star and former Defiant Theatre actor, Nick Offerman, will appear alongside his wife, Megan Mullally of "Will & Grace," in "Annapurna" with the New Group off-Broadway, the company announced on...

I was in 7th grade when "The Breakfast Club" opened in theaters, and I distinctly remember thinking the movie was totally right about everything. I wasn't in high school yet (and that was surely one of movie's allures; a peek in a world I...

"The Kings of Summer" is a coming-of-age story that keeps its humor as dry as the sunbaked days of its teen rebellion.
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WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — If you’re curious about the big difference between Oscar night’s two main after-parties, the Governors Ball and the Vanity Fair party, consider this:
The buzzy happening at the Governors Ball, the academy’s official...

The weekend of '80s remakes is upon us, with both 1981's "Endless Love" and 1987's "RoboCop" opening in theaters, plus one more that taps into a strange sentimental teenage memory for me: 1986's "About Last Night…"
Though...

Goodman Theatre has landed one of Broadway’s biggest names for its “A Dream Evening” gala.
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In his new book, “Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living,” Nick Offerman — the former Chicago theater actor, comedian and native of Minooka, now best known for his hilarious performances as the red-meat-eating,...

The director's statement issued with “Smashed” reads, in part: "Being drunk can be really fun. It's just all the other things that come with being drunk that can be a downer (wrecking cars, lives, etc.) ... so many films that deal with substance...

Leslie Bricusse, the Academy Award-winning songwriter behind such monster hits as "What Kind of Fool Am I?," "Candy Man" (penned with the late Anthony Newley) and "Talk to the Animals," slipped quietly into Chicago this week....

Let us now praise "Parks and Recreation," which ends Tuesday night in an effervescence of heart and hope, proof positive that success and significance are not always measured in gold, statuary or otherwise.
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